API API-570 Practice Exams
Last updated on Oct 22,2026- Exam Code: API-570
- Exam Name: Piping Inspector
- Certification Provider: API
- Latest update: Oct 22,2026
Lower levels of soil resistivity are:
- A . Less corrosive than higher resistivity soils.
- B . More corrosive than higher resistivity soils
- C . Has no effect on corrosion.
- D . More desirable because of increased electrolyte.
After hot bending and forming, heat treatment is required for which P numbers?
- A . 3,4,5, 6 and 10A
- B . 1, 2 and 7
- C . 11ASG1 and 11ASG2
- D . 1,2,8,9A and 98
The minimum required pipe wall thickness or retirement thickness shall be based on pressure, mechanical and structural considerations using the appropriate design formulae and.
- A . code allowable stress
- B . assumption stress
- C . nil-weight ductility stress
- D . CTOD stress
03 inches/year 5 Years
MAWP:
- A . 674 psig
- B . 323 psig
- C . 125 psig
- D . Metal loss exceeds the requirements for 5 year inspection interval
The minimum allowable thickness of a piping component shall be based on.
- A . pressure, mechanical and structural considerations
- B . previous experience of the owner
- C . corrosiveness of the product only
- D . availability of piping materials
What is the maximum length allowed for individual slag trapped in a weld in a Severe Cyclic Conditions piping system?
- A . >TW X 3
- B . £TW / 3
- C . ³12T
- D . 3/23”
What document may be used as a guide when examiners are being qualified by their employer?
- A . ASME Section IX
- B . ASM E Section V
- C . ASNT SNT- TC-1A
- D . API 570
Besides ultrasonic instruments, what other method can be used to determine thickness measurements?
- A . AET
- B . ET
- C . MT
- D . RT
A welder who tests on a ½” thick plate, groove weld in the 3G position is also qualified to weld in which other plate position?
- A . Vertical only
- B . Flat and horizontal
- C . Flat
- D . All plate positions
All piping system repair and alteration welding shall be done in accordance with:
- A . ASME BPV IX
- B . ASME B31.G
- C . API 570
- D . The code to which the system was built.